Can British citizens travel to the UK using a non-British passport?

[Chelski]

Yes earky ETAs were easy to get without lying. Later ones not so.

Was it an actual question on the earky ones?

I've never applied so wouldn't know. Mrs Chelski (German) doesn't remember either.

Or do we now know/think it will be applied to future ones?

[snowingagain]

Someone gave details about this. Something along the lines that it was easy early on to complete the ETA application and avoid mentiontiong you were a dual UK citizen as it was not provided as an option in the drop down list of nationalities to choose from. So you did not have to lie. But this has now changed and you have to blantantly fib which can get very messy if you are caught.

BTW Simon Calder the Independent travel guy is saying the Dublin dodge still working. https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/ ... 45773.html

Earky night for me now.

[GoodGrape]

I used an elecronic check in machine on the way out, used one on arrival and same coming back. Just for clarity, once I was through at my destination I had a chat with a lad from border force on the other side ( too long to write in detail ) and he reckoned it was simply that my ETA was from last year.
He did warn me that a new ETA would be a different story so get a Passport etc before september when my current ETA runs out. No need, i have zero plans to return to the UK.

Alls well that ends well.

[Chelski]

Someone gave details about this. Something along the lines that it was easy early on to complete the ETA application and avoid mentiontiong you were a dual UK citizen as it was not provided as an option in the drop down list of nationalities to choose from. So you did not have to lie. But this has now changed and you have to blantantly fib which can get very messy if you are caught.

Agreed and thanks for the clarification.

Earky night for me now.

I laughed. It was a proper belly laugh, too. Nice. Thank you.

[kiplette]

I happened to read this thread on Friday 9th Jan

A friend took my photo with her phone, following the instructions on the application website. The photo is evaluated when you upload it during the application and they'll immediately inform you if the photo is considered "good" or "poor".
There was no option to upload a digital copy of the passport during the application.

Thanks to everyone's advice, kid#2 has managed to sort himself a new British passport, with really very little hassle. He scanned and created pages with as many sides of his DE passport as would sensibly fit (4 doubles) per page, and got permission to print them in colour at work, and took his own picture against a plain wall at home.

So apart from a rather odd picture with a lumpy hair-do on his passport for the next 10 years, the process went really well and worth it for 10 years of hassle free travel to the UK.